Realistically Could The US Government Ever Be Overthrown?

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They make their money primarily through their markets in the US. this arrangement wouldn't continue if the US went to shyt. I dont even see how this would be in their interests. Our prosperity and drug addiction makes them rich in the first place.

It would be easier to sell drugs if the government collapsed. They would be able to practically drive tons of drugs over the border. When the economy is not certain people drink more and use drugs.
 
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It would be easier to sell drugs if the government collapsed. They would be able to practically drive tons of drugs over the border. When the economy is not certain people drink more and use drugs.
You call a complete collapse of the American government a situation in which the economy is "not certain"? Drug use is mainly fueled by disposable income. It isn't a coincidence that the most prosperous nation on earth consumes the most drugs. If there was a situation where drug laws werent being enforced, the country was flooded with supply and disposable income collapsed, drug prices would fall hard and kill the profitability of these cartels. This is econ 101.

Were derailing the thread anyway.
 

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All it would take is for Americans to be angry enough to put their life on the line. We're far too spoiled for that, though.
 
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Realistically what would it take? We’ve often seen protesters in front of the white house picketing the fence but none of them is stupid enough to break down the gates and get their head blown off by the fbi . As a Democracy we are suppose to be allowed to change our government but I don’t see the CIA/FBI letting that happen. I just want to know is it possible and what would it take.


btw CIA i'm not cosigning overthrowing the government just a question

You can't overthrow one branch of the government and call it a day. The White House is the executive branch, the legislative and judicial branch make up the other two. A total take over would involve taking over Capitol Hill, the Supreme Court and the White House.
The Secret Service protect the White House, not the FBI.
The contingency plan would be the US military would prevent taking over the country physically. Even if a group took over the Capitol building with all senators and congressmen, and the White House with the President and Vice-President and the Supreme Court with all the Supreme Court justices, the military including National Guard and would fight back. There is no military that could do this without being spread out too thin. America is huge.

A takeover would have to be a coup. A huge population of the US would have to want to take over the government, like either the Democrats or Republicans, to turn the country into a one-party dictatorship.
 

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That would be a scary world to live in. You'd need God on your side if that ever happened because the atrocities would blow your mind from all walks of life.
 

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Lets be real right now.

shyt really isn't even bad enough to really want to overthrow anything.

I swear people don't have passports.

Americans live GREAT.
Less than 25 percent of Americans own a passport.
George Bush never went overseas before he became president (Cancun vacations in college)....
Sarah Palin got her first passport in 2006 :mjlol:
 

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I think it'd take a kinetic situation to destabilize the US gov't. Like, we'd straight up have to have been attacked and fukked up. Then there'd be enough mayhem and doubt for a well organized overthrow. But truthfully, I don't think the overthrow would be done by any body/group terribly different from what we have. If the overthrower is rich (as they probably would be), then keeping our fat asses in in our cubicles, at our computers, and on porn sites while eatin deluxe mayonnaise twinkies and shyt is probably the most profitable and stable situation.

Bet you the new nikkas would put fresh railroads in and siphon all that money right back to the new gov't.
 

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Nah, ya'll go ahead and test those drone strikes...

I'm sure you'll come out on top.
 

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There are people that think the US gov could defeat a militarized 320 million American citizens + all foreign sleeper cells :russ:
 
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